IF A CHILD LIVES WITH PRAISE,
HE LEARNS TO APPRECIATE.
IF A CHILD LIVES WITH PATIENCE,
HE LEARNS JUSTICE.
IF A CHILD LIVES WITH SECURITY,
HE LEARNS TO HAVE FAITH.
IF A CHILD LIVES WITH APPROVAL,
HE LEARNS TO LIKE HIMSELF.
IF A CHILD LIVES WITH ACCEPTANCE AND FRIENDSHIP,
HE LEARNS TO FIND LOVE IN THE WORLD."
In an October 23, 1981 statement to former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre E. Trudeau, i quoted the following thing to him, the first taken from a song by my friend Jackson Browne, titled 'For A Dancer', and the second from the Toronto Y.M.C.A. again:
"...and do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Till in time the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown--
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone."
(Jackson Browne, copyright 1974 Benchmark Music)
"Give me a fish,
and I will eat for today;
Teach me to fish,
and I will eat for the rest of my life."
(ANON)
These underline my expressed and elaborated goals for providing more durable aid for the world's hungry and disadvantaged, "my Christian friend. Charity is a first step; acceptance and friendship should be "the next step."
I attended a rally after the 'Walk for Peace' on April 27, 1985, "my Christian friend", as i told you i intended to, and had the opportunity to go backstage to speak with Dr. George Ignatieff, the present Chancellor of the University of Toronto, and former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, former Canadian Ambassador to N.A.T.O., and former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament. I asked him if i could correspond with him in future about these other enclosures here, concerning what Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto H. Gordon Skilling terms "the interdependence of peace and human rights." He gave me his card, Ma'am, inviting me to make submissions to the two of them in future concerning our common Canadian commitment to world peace and the respect of human rights.
In a February, 1983 statement to Mr. Dan Illingworth, Editorial Page Editor for
Vancouver's newspaper The Province, i referred him to the following statement by the
famous British economist, Adam Smith, in his classic work, 'The Wealth of Nations'.
Mr. Smith said:
"As the violation of justice is what men will never submit to from one another, the public magistrate is under the necessity of employing the power of the commonwealth to enforce the practice of this virtue. Without this precaution, civil society would become a scene of violence and bloodshed, every man revenging himself at his own hand whenever he fanced he was injured."
The New American Bible, in Ephesians Chapter 2:17, says the following:
"...he came to bring the good news of peace."
And St. Matthew Chapter 5:9 says:
"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
The key to peace, at the heart of the Judaic-Christian "spiritual message," lies in St. Mark
Chapter 12, verses 28-34 (as i underline for Mr. McDermott).